Commission Regulation (EC) No 2502/1999 of 26 November 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2166/83 establishing a licensing system for certain fisheries in an area north of Scotland (Shetland area)

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 2502/1999
• Articles: 2

Article 1

The following paragraph is hereby added to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 2166/83:

"3. However, Community fishing vessels operating in the area to which satellite-based vessel monitoring systems (VMS) apply and which transmit data via VMS in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1489/97(6) shall be exempt from the obligation to communicate their movements provided for in paragraph 1."

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 November 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 389, 31.12.1992, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 164, 9.6.1998, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 206, 30.7.1983, p. 71.

(4) OJ L 202, 30.7.1997, p. 18.

(5) OJ L 298, 19.11.1999, p. 5.

(6) OJ L 202, 30.7.1997, p. 18.